The headquarters of the British spy organization MI6 suffers an
explosion early in the film. As part of his plan to humiliate M, Silva
hacks into MI6’s computer network and then proceeds to level the
building in a massive explosion. Renard plants a bomb in MI6
headquarters in order to kill an oil baron. The damage is much less
extensive than in Skyfall, but it gets the plot going with a
bang. This is another bold move by these films. MI6 is supposed to be
one of the most secure locations in the world, but the villain finds a
way to sneak a bomb inside it and kill many people. Suddenly nothing is
safe anymore. The World Is Not Enough doesn’t do a good job of
addressing the implications of this terrorist attack, though. Skyfall
moves MI6 to an underground location after the explosion, and some
characters are visibly shaken by the attack.